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No, I would not become a nurse again, I love medicine but nurses have become expendable punching bags. From a perspective of an older new grad, I was 38, it has been horrible. I look older so people naturally assumed I was more experienced and treated me like crap for not being that. Secondly, it has ripped my body to shreds. Medical technology is the wave of the future, I would look into that instead.

Those 4 hours are education. I have never gotten overtime pay for education. It is charged as base pay only. So if I work a 36 hour week and put in an 8 hr education training, no overtime. Also overtime is anything over 80 hrs in a 2 week pay period. Time only for education.

Hokas, hands down the best shoes.

My first year was on a med-surg floor as well. It was horrible for me. I then switched to critical care and pretty much started all over and it was horribly hard as well. I enjoyed other aspects about the switch, but the learning curve in the first year is overwhelming. I felt stupid, overwhelmed, overworked, and alone. After a year, I started getting to know what I was doing and I started to have a friendly relationships with my co-workers. So yes, you are in the middle of the hardest part of starting nursing (the first year). However, I do think you are depressed and need to see a professional. Maybe you need antidepressants or antianxiety medicines. Maybe night shift has been too hard on your system. Maybe you need to exercise regularly or eat healthy. Definitely you need to see a councelor and you definitely need help. Yes, the first year is beyond hard and you are not alone in that but it is time to get help.

Your first patient sounds like she was withdrawing from alcohol and not delirious. Because of DTs, I have worked with hundreds of alcohol withdrawal patients in critical care and I have only met one who wasn't an jerk during the withdrawal period. So I would take what she said as no authority whatsoever. She was miserable and wanted you to feel that way too. The second patient was in the psych ward for a reason. Leave it at that and move on. I am sure you are a kind person and a thoughtful nurse, because you cared about what they said to you. However, in the future, you will have to decern who can be a good authority to give an opinion about your character and who cannot. I can safely say, those not in their right mind are not.

I don't think that NETY intentionally exists... See I had a chicken coup with ten bantams (smaller type chickens). 1 Hen decided to get broody and sit on her eggs, and I let her. One day, while I wasn't around, one baby chick hatched, and for whatever reason, his mom left him to fend for himself. When I found him, he was already crushed and dead. Life in the hen house is normal moving and grooving for the chickens. They don't pick on each other and if they bump into one another, no big deal. But chicks are delicate and small and what is normal moving and grooving for them, is just giant feet of death to a chick. That mom was the one thing that could have kept him alive if she had done her job, but she didn't. We need good mentors for new grads. We need to treat our mentors awesome because they go above and beyond. A new nurse is trying to exponentially tackle a huge learning curve in such a short amount of time. Criticism for criticism sake is unhelpful in the first year; guidance and a listening ear is all they need. I think as new grads are given time to grow and get stronger, then handling the hen house with all it's moving and grooving will be just fine.

I have issues with the soap because it is antibacterial and overly drying. I would ask about using Cetaphil instead.

If I have plenty of blood, then until the tube stop sucking blood in. If they are a hard stick, then to the bottom of the label. But if I had a vein blow or something, I try to send what I got and see if they make me redraw. So far they haven't.

I'm just curious as to what they changed, what they kept. Like I know that HCA hospitals tend to use Meditech. If our current program is not Meditch, will they switch it? Any info would help. Thanks

Ditto. Sour Lemons. BTW what is "registry status"? Is that PRN or something?

Maternal Newborn (60 items) 55.0% – 65.0% Level 1; 66.7% – 78.3% Level 2; 80.0% – 100.0% Level 3 So 60 questions although there may be extra (not worth any points) questions. It was my easiest subject and I scored 93%, so i would study the heck out of it if you are having a hard time. Study the booklet and any online quizes from ATI. And it is one of the lowest percentages to get a level 2 or 3, so it can be done. Good luck.

A friend of mine and I both got job offers before we graduated to a state we were moving to. It was a faster process to pursue licensure there rather than where we graduated from and having it transferred. It's done all the time, btw.

I worked in a Magnet hospital and I typically had 6 patients on my med-surg teli floor (and we were the good floor, some had 8). Sometimes I had a PCT, Sometimes not. We had to do everything, including drawing blood. What you described sounded beyond typical and not shocking at all. I am now in Critical Care and I have a 1:3 ratio and am just as busy, non stop with super sick patients. I would of suggested to stick it out and move on after if it didn't work out, but honesly, if you have quit already, then you are really up a creek without a paddle and probably for a long long time. But if anyone gets the same contract in the future, I would steer clear.

Here in Savannah, you definitely have a shot in our Med-Surg Intermediate and that is a gateway to our Level 1 trauma ICU. There is a shorttage here.

Super love your post. I have had 28 surgeries. I have adverse reactions to everything but Dilaudid. And do you know when the last time I have had Dilaudid? Yea, neither do I because it has been years. But I know what it is like to have pain so rough that I passed out, my body compensated, but I sure and heck wasn't recovering. Pain is subjective, period. Opioid addiction stems from mental health deficiencies and not supporting the healthy growth of our youth. We need to spend the money and time towards mental health. Pain Management in the Critically Ill Discovery of Unexpected Pain in Intubated and Sedated Patients https://www.aacn.org/docs/cemedia/C1533.pdf Knowledge and Attitude about Pain and Pain Management among Critical Care Nurses in a Tertiary Hospital | Insight Medical Publishing